North Korea ‘Looking To Blame Seoul’ For Its COVID-19 Infection – Analysts
This picture taken on July 26, 2020 and released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on July 27 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaking at a ceremony. STR / KCNA VIA KNS / AFPNorth Korea is seizing on the return of a defector from the South to point the finger at Seoul for the arrival of coronavirus in the country after months of denying it had any cases, analysts said Monday.
And Seoul officials said Monday that the man believed to be the re-defector has never been confirmed as a coronavirus patient in the South, nor a contact of a confirmed case. “North Korea may try to use the defector’s return to deflect the blame for an outbreak that has already occurred, or for any future quarantine failures,” said former US government North Korea analyst Rachel Lee.
The North could “further send a message about defectors painting them as enemies of the state”, she added in a tweet. This undated picture released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on July 23, 2020 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visiting the Kwangchon chicken farm under construction in Hwangju County. STR / AFP / KCNA VIA KNSBut the South Korean military said a North Korean defector was believed to have returned to the North from Ganghwa island, on the Han river estuary northwest of Seoul.
Seoul’s health authorities said his name did not appear in the South’s database of confirmed coronavirus cases, nor its list of their contacts.
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